Liquorix has published its 7.3-1 release, moving the low-latency enthusiast kernel onto the fresh Linux 7.3.3 base. Maintainer Steven Barrett pushed the build November 8, and unlike recent versions it's a deliberately clean, well-tested capstone rather than a batch of experimental patches. It inherits Linux 7.3's record-setting features, including improved VRAM management, faster Btrfs fsync, and completed sched_ext support, all layered with Liquorix's usual 1,000 Hz tick rate and aggressive preemption tuning. The kernel remains AMD64-only with an install script for Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, and Arch, though it favors interactive and gaming workloads over battery life or servers.
Remi Collet has published testing builds of PHP 8.4.28RC1 and 8.5.13RC1 in his repository for Fedora 43–45 and RHEL-based distros like CentOS Stream, AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux. Both supported branches can be installed as base packages in the remi-modular-test repo or as Software Collections via remi-test for safe parallel testing. The releases arrive just months after the PHP2Shell security flaws forced operators to rush toward 8.4.27 and 8.5.12, making these RCs a natural next step in the upgrade path.
Liquorix maintainer Steven Barrett tagged kernel 7.2-25 on GitHub November 4, another release built on top of upstream Linux 7.2.15. The release centers on four patches to the custom sched/alt scheduler that tighten task placement on cores and refine "sleep credit" priority boosts. It's a maintenance and refinement release rather than a feature bump, aimed at shaving microseconds off wake latency to make interactive workloads feel snappier. Liquorix remains a single-maintainer, AMD64-only kernel that improves responsiveness in gaming and A/V production while trading some raw throughput.
Fedora Linux 45 officially shipped today, after a double NO-GO delay that pushed the original October 20 target back by two weeks. The release brings GNOME 51, KDE Plasma 6.8, the Linux 7.2 kernel, Stratis storage in the installer, and a refreshed toolchain with GCC 16.2 and glibc 2.44. However, several breaking changes will test power users, since Podman 6 drops slirp4netns and BoltDB, RPM signature checking is now enforced, and DNF 4 and yum are permanently retired. Fedora Asahi Remix 45 for Apple Silicon dropped a day earlier on November 2, with M3 support added.
Fedora's QA team is running a week-long "Kernel 7.3 Test Week" from November 1–7, 2026, inviting volunteers to install and stress-test the new kernel on Fedora 45 and Fedora 44. The event wraps the same day Fedora 45 ships, November 3, making it the final community checkpoint before one of the year's biggest releases. Kernel 7.3 itself is a record-breaker with 18,765 commits from 3,021 developers, and it lands on machines with better low-end GPU VRAM handling and faster Btrfs and ext4 storage. If you want to help, you'll need a Fedora Account, a spare machine, and the patience to file proper Bugzilla reports.
Fedora Linux 45 has been declared GO, with Fedora Operations Architect Aoife Moloney confirming the RC-1.4 compose will ship on Tuesday, November 3, 2026. The green light came after two consecutive NO-GO delays, ending a two-week saga that stalled over a missed compose deadline and a cluster of open blocker bugs. Fedora 45 brings GNOME 51, KDE Plasma 6.8.1, the Linux 7.2 kernel, and platform changes like KMSCON console, enforced RPM signature checking, and Stratis support in the installer. Final ISOs will be mirrored on release day, while pre-release RC-1.4 images are available now for those who can't wait.
Fedora Linux 45 Candidate RC‑1.4 arrived today as an alternative to RC‑1.3, with both builds viable heading into a make-or-break Go/No‑Go meeting at 17:00 UTC. If it clears the bar, the long-delayed release is set to ship on Tuesday, 3 November 2026. The new build layers targeted fixes for the eMudhra certificate, stratisd encryption, and oo7 bugs that blocked two earlier NO‑GO votes. All RC‑1.4 test results fold back into RC‑1.3 except Stratis, giving QA essentially one shot to validate the final candidate this week.
Fedora 45 has shipped its third and final release candidate, RC-1.3, as the last media the Quality team needs to clear before Thursday's Go/No-Go vote. The release has already slipped twice, moving from an October 20 target to a current goal of November 3, 2026. Two accepted blockers tied to headline features, an oo7 account-migration failure and a Stratis encrypted-pool boot problem, are the main remaining hurdle, though most testing has come back green. If RC-1.3 passes cleanly on October 29, the stable Fedora 45 ships on schedule; if not, the deadline slips again.
Fedora Linux 45 Final was declared NO-GO at the October 22 meeting, pushing the release to a new target date of Tuesday, November 3, 2026. Release lead Aoife Moloney cited outstanding blocker bugs, headlined by an unresolved eMudhra certificate still sitting in the system trust store. This marks Fedora 45's second straight miss, following a first NO-GO on October 15 when no candidate media had been published in time. The team needs an updated ca-certificates landed in a new RC-3 and verified by QA, with the next gate on October 29 deciding whether the November 3 target holds.
Remi Collet released updated packages for PHP 8.2.35, 8.3.36, 8.4.27 and 8.5.12 today for Fedora and RHEL based Linux distributions, just a day after upstream patched two critical unauthenticated remote-code-execution flaws affecting every supported branch. The bugs, one exploiting OOM corruption via longjmp() and the other stale global state, are especially dangerous on mod_php, where PHP validated a complete HTTP exploit, though the fix is simply to update. Packages are already live in Remi's remi-modular and remi-safe repositories for Fedora 43+ and Enterprise Linux 8+ on x86_64 and aarch64, with interim mitigations offered only as a stopgap.
The second release candidate for Fedora Linux 45 has been released for testing today as make-or-break media after the project hit a NO-GO on October 15. The candidate must pass release-validation with no blocker bugs at Thursday's Go/No-Go if Fedora 45 is to hit its October 27 ship date. Highlights include the kmscon console overhaul, GNOME 51, KDE Plasma 6.7, kernel 7.2, fully reproducible builds, and default RPM signature enforcement. Testing is mostly green so far, with only image-size threshold flags and pending Security Lab results holding things up.
The first release candidate for Fedora Linux 45 Candidate went live today for community testing, with general availability targeted for Friday, October 30. The release packs under-the-hood modernization like the kmscon console, Stratis storage in the installer, and the oo7 secret-management system, plus a wave of new toolchain versions. QA is in decent shape with no accepted 0-day blockers, but proposed issues cluster around oo7 and several images exceed their ISO size limits.
Fedora's QA bot has nominated the Branched nightly compose 20261017.n.0 for community testing as the project races to validate Fedora 45. The release missed its October 20 target, which was declared a NO-GO, pushing it to the October 27 contingency date. The headline change is an anaconda installer bump from 45.27 to 45.29, adding the web-based installer for Atomic desktops and Stratis storage support. Most tests pass, though a few Spin ISOs run over their size limits without breaking functionality.
Fedora has declared Fedora 45 Final a "NO-GO" because no suitable release candidate was available to test, leaving QA with nothing to grade. The announcement came from Operations Architect Aoife Moloney on the devel-announce mailing list on Thursday, October 15. With the original October 20 GA date abandoned, the project is now chasing a new target of October 27, with November 3 as a fallback, and the next Go/No-Go meeting is set for October 22. Unlike past Fedora NO-GOs that stemmed from open blocker bugs, this delay was a "NO-GO by default" with no candidate published at all, so users should hold off installing until the schedule confirms a shipable build.
Remi Collet's testing repositories now ship RC builds of PHP 8.4.27RC1 and PHP 8.5.12RC1 for Fedora and Enterprise Linux distros. The packages are available as base packages through remi-modular-test and as parallel Software Collections via remi-test, supporting both x86_64 and aarch64. Final releases for both are expected on October 22, 2026, and testers are warned not to use them in production. Meanwhile, PHP 8.3 has entered security-only mode and PHP 8.6.0RC3 is already in the repo as well.
Fedora 45 entered its Final Freeze on October 6, 2026, setting a primary release target of October 20, with fallback dates of October 27 and November 3. The blocker list is small and manageable, with two accepted blockers, an oversized aarch64 Server image and an oo7 secure, WiFi auth failure, plus a handful of freeze exceptions, signaling the release is tracking well. Headline changes include kmscon replacing the ~14-year-old in-kernel fbcon console, RPM package signing enforced by default, repo configs relocated from /etc to /usr, and ptrace restricted by default. Fedora 45 ships GNOME 51, KDE Plasma 6.7, and Linux 7.2, while Fedora 43 reaches end of life in early December 2026, creating an upgrade deadline for users.
Fedora has published a refreshed set of live install ISOs for Fedora Linux 44, tagged 20261001 and uploaded on October 5, with the Linux kernel 7.2.8 as the headline update. Eleven desktop spins are included, from Workstation/GNOME to the lightweight i3 and SOAS builds, each ranging from roughly 2.1 GB to 3.2 GB and all available at the project's live-respins directory. The 7.2.8 kernel is primarily a fix-heavy stable release, with notable SMB/CIFS security hardening and AMD GPU stability work. It's the most current stable 44 you can install right now, though Fedora 45 is already in beta and heading toward its final release.
The Fedora RISC-V community published non-official Server, Cloud, and Container Beta images for Fedora 45 on September 25, giving developers a way to test the OS on real RISC-V hardware. The Server builds come in two flavors: a stable "Generic" kernel close to upstream and the broader "Omni" kernel that supports more boards at the cost of less-tested code. These images remain community-contributed rather than officially supported, so they're aimed at testing and building packages rather than production servers. If you've got a board like the VisionFive 2 sitting around, you can download them from Fedora's public infra and boot via QEMU or physical hardware.
Remi Collet refreshed his remi RPM repository on 25 September 2026, shipping patched PHP 8.5.11, 8.4.26, 8.3.35, and 8.2.34 for RHEL-family systems. The rebuild addresses a security cycle covering ten CVEs, including an FPM IPv6 ACL bypass, a TLS hostname-verification fallback, and cross-origin credential leaks, and Remi rates the update as strongly recommended. Packages are available in the remi-modular repository for RHEL 8 through 10 and Fedora 43 and up, built for both x86_64 and aarch64. Admins should verify the patched string across every SAPI after upgrading, and those still on the end-of-life PHP 8.1 should migrate to a supported branch.
Fedora CoreOS 45 Test Week kicks off Monday, September 21, 2026, inviting the community to test container-optimized FCOS images built from Fedora 45 content before they reach the testing and stable streams. The event follows the Fedora 45 Beta release on September 15 and targets two major changes: systemd-oomd with zram swap support, and native Butane YAML configuration in Ignition. Participants download test images, run cases on hardware or virtual machines, and log pass/fail results through the CoreOS issue-tracking workflow. This quality-gate effort sits between the beta and the expected November 19 final release, following Fedora's familiar six-month cadence.
